Harold Macmillan, 1st Earl of Stockton
(1894-1986), Prime MinisterSitter in 38 portraits
Prime Minister. A member of the publishing dynasty, Macmillan served in the 1914-18 war, and was wounded three times. He won Stockton-on-Tees for the Conservatives (1924-29, and 1931-45). Macmillan wrote an argument for Conservatism, The Middle Way (1938) and was regarded by many of his party as a 'neo-socialist'. A firm anti-appeaser before the Second World War, he was a 'hawk' over Suez. He succeeded Anthony Eden as Prime Minister in 1957. On foreign policy he was a European, and in 1961-2 tried to accede to the Treaty of Rome and the EEC, but was faced with De Gaulle's veto. The Profumo affair and ill-health led to his departure from politics in 1964.
Explore the portrait of Harold Macmillan by Geoffrey Davien (NPG D2735) from all angles
Harold Macmillan, 1st Earl of Stockton; Lady Dorothy Evelyn Macmillan (née Cavendish)
by Unknown photographer
bromide print, December 1959
NPG x136153
by Planet News
bromide press print, 3 October 1959
NPG x184296
Harold Macmillan, 1st Earl of Stockton
by Pamela Chandler
modern bromide print from original negative, 1959
NPG x88837
John Fitzgerald Kennedy; Harold Macmillan, 1st Earl of Stockton
by Jimmy Wilds, for Keystone Press Agency Ltd
bromide press print, 30 June 1963
NPG x137685
by Mark Gerson
bromide print, circa 1964
NPG x17971
by Unknown photographer
bromide press print, 14 April 1964
NPG x194016
'Luck and Flaw' (Peter Nigel Fluck; Roger Law with Spitting Image puppets)
by Gil Galvin
digital chromogenic print, 1984
On display in Room 28 on Floor 2 at the National Portrait Gallery
NPG x134391
Harold Macmillan, 1st Earl of Stockton
by David Levine
pen and ink, 1966
NPG D63
Harold Macmillan, 1st Earl of Stockton
by Cecil Beaton
pencil, late 1960s-early 1970s
NPG D17943(113)
Harold Macmillan, 1st Earl of Stockton
by Geoffrey Davien
sculptoon, unfired clay
NPG D2735
Harold Macmillan, 1st Earl of Stockton
by Walter Stoneman
half-plate glass negative, April 1947
NPG x188646
Harold Macmillan, 1st Earl of Stockton
by Walter Stoneman
half-plate glass negative, April 1947
NPG x188647
Harold Macmillan, 1st Earl of Stockton; Ava (née Bodley), Viscountess Waverley
by Sir (Henry) Ashley Clarke
vintage snapshot print, 1 April 1950
NPG x136225
Harold Macmillan, 1st Earl of Stockton
by Elliott & Fry
bromide print, 31 October 1951
NPG x91951
Harold Macmillan, 1st Earl of Stockton
by Elliott & Fry
whole-plate glass negative, 31 October 1951
NPG x100265
Harold Macmillan, 1st Earl of Stockton
by Elliott & Fry
whole-plate glass negative, 31 October 1951
NPG x100266
Harold Macmillan, 1st Earl of Stockton; Lady Dorothy Evelyn Macmillan (née Cavendish)
by John Drysdale
colour tear sheet, published 6 March 1957
NPG x193415
Harold Macmillan, 1st Earl of Stockton
by Unknown photographer
bromide print, 1960s
NPG x21543
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